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Another apparent suicide:

Anthony Bourdain.

Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.
CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.
"It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the network said in a statement Friday morning. "His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time."
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He also leaves a young daughter.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
 
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Once, when they were filming his No Reservations travel show, he and his crew ended up briefly trapped behind the lines in a war zone in Beirut. The Emmy-nominated program that resulted had a voice-over conclusion by Bourdain that I never forgot. In fact, I've found it echoing in my memory frequently, especially in recent times.

I wasn't in Haifa. I wasn't in the north of Israel. I don't know what that was like. I was in Beirut.

In the few years since I've started to travel this world, I've found myself changing. The cramped, cynical world view of a man who'd only seen life through the narrow prism of the restaurant kitchen had altered. I'd been so many places, I'd met so many people, from wildly divergent backgrounds, countries and cultures. Everywhere I'd been, I'd been--as in Beirut--treated so well. I'd been the recipient of so many random acts of kindness from strangers. And I'd begun to think that no matter where I went or who I sat down with, that food and a few drinks seemed always to bring people together; that this planet was filled with basically good and decent people doing the best they could, if frequently under difficult circumstances; that the human animal was perhaps a better and nicer species than I'd once thought.

I'd begun to believe that the dinner table was the great leveler, where people from opposite sides of the world could always sit down and talk and eat and drink, and if not solve all the world's problems, at least find for a time, common ground.

Now, I'm not so sure. Maybe the world's not like that at all. Maybe in the real world, the one without cameras and happy food and travel shows, everybody--the good and the bad together--are all crushed under the same terrible wheel. I hope--I really hope--I'm wrong about that.
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In remembering this speech, I often find myself wondering about the inevitability of our collective appointment with that terrible wheel.
I, too, hope he was wrong about that.
 
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I think Bourdain mentioned on "No Reservations" once that his viewers fit into three categories:

1) People who watch for travel 2) People who watch for food 3) People who watch for both

I certainly enjoyed the food portion of his shows the best. Always made me hungry. I still recall the Techniques episode of "No Reservations" where he grilled steak with Carlos.

He will be missed. That's always what I wish people who are suicidal would realize. There's always someone who will miss them.

 
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